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For good or bad, everything is connected today. It used to be that the physical structures are being inventoried. But now every being has a digital footprint. And no place can demonstrate this system better than Singapore.
It is a cyberbiophysical organism humming along like some benevolent, nosy cyborg auntie. Sensors are its eyes, CCTV poles its antennae, and TraceTogether tokens its nervous system. Every citizen is effectively a cell in this organism, shuffling through the bloodstream of MRT lines and hawker centers while the system keeps track of heartbeats, bank balances, unsanctioned strange-acronym-law comments, and maybe even whether you jaywalked. It’s efficiency fused with surveillance — the machine smiles, bows politely, and still knows exactly where you were last Friday.
Compared to the East's hulking mech of control, Singapore’s version is sleeker — less stomping robot, more smartwatch fused into your skin. It doesn’t roar at you, it just buzzes gently when you step out of line. Western democracies, on the other hand, are like old desktop PCs: full of spyware scandals, firewalls popping up, and constant user complaints about “privacy violations.” Singaporeans? They just let the organism sync, nod approvingly when crime stays low, and marvel at how clean the data flows.
So what you get is a techno-orwellian hello kitty monster — equal parts creature and system, breathing efficiency and sweating regulation. It is a living hybrid of state, machine, and society that strokes your hair with one robotic hand while quietly indexing your DNA with the other. And oddly enough, people don’t just tolerate it — they actually like being inside the organism, because it keeps the trains punctual, the streets spotless, and the chaos at bay. It’s 1970s, reprogrammed as a service upgrade.
Max watering the Oil Seed Rape after a wee dip to cool off this morning. Not that it was exactly hot there was still a frost.
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I was surprised with the skies parted on Saturday it was supposed to be cloudy all day long. Our first snow of the year will arrive later today with 1-3 inches. Something worth photographing :) Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Key System articulated Bridge Car 177 (Bethlehem Steel 1937) running @ Oakland, Ca.
Kodachrome my collection, photographer unknown. (Jan. 1957)*
The Anson in its new RAF Coningsby Station Flight color scheme seen displaying in glorious weather at the Shuttleworth Collection Season Premier 2018, Old Warden.
A calm and cloudy day in Buttermere. With some great reflections and mist and clouds to work with I enjoyed the morning.
It doesn't look like the computer woes are going away anytime soon so I figured I had better get used to this laptop's editing system.
View of Bergamo Città Alta, the old medieval part of the City. Lombardy, Italy.
This upper town is encircled by massive Venetian defensive systems that are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) more system Taurus 1216 227 and a pair of 1144 locos bring this mixed 2000 ton freight train the Ghega Semmering Line (UNESCO World Heritage) uphill to the south. Photographed while driving through the station Küb. (Lower Austria)
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No one paid much attention when the spider first showed up at school. Sure, he was a bit too small to fit the standard desk, but the teacher was accustomed to meeting students' special needs. She set him up with a shoebox, which she placed on his desk top, and allowed him to climb the walls or pipes or blackboard if he had trouble following the lessons.
Other than a few boys threatening to squish him (which really, was not that unusual for new kids) the spider's life in school was fairly uneventful. Until the day he turned in his science project.
"What's this?" the teacher asked.
"It's my model of the solar system," the spider said proudly. He'd been up half the night spinning it, and then out all morning coaxing dew drops into just the right places. He might not have been as talented as his classmates when it came to sports, or math (having eight legs, he found the whole business of counting to 10 using fingers and toes completely confusing and confounding, and had trouble moving past that) but here, in the world of science, the spider felt he truly excelled. He held up his model so that tiny images of forest and sky could be seen in the droplets, suspended upsidedown, signifying everything.
He smiled his widest spider smile, excepting praise. But the teacher said, "Oh, no. This is all wrong. I mean... where is Earth? Where is the sun? I don't see any labels on your planets and... really... why are there so many globules? And why aren't they arranged in a straight line, the way we taught you?"
The spider wanted to answer that, from his perspective, this WAS an accurate model of... not just the solar system, but the whole universe. He also wanted to point out that... even with eight eyes... his vision was not his primary sense and he mainly saw blobs of dark and light.
But he didn't say these things because he'd learned that people, in general, did not want to hear them. They did not want to know about other, different ideas and perspectives. In school, they simply wanted you to tell them what they'd told you.
So the teacher stood there frowning, not even remarking on the brilliance of the spider's work; the effort he'd invested; the way he'd captured the whole wide world in tiny glistening droplets. And the spider knew right then that school was not the place for him. He dropped to the floor, scurried out of the building and headed back to the forest.
"What did you learn at school today?" his mother asked when he got home.
And the little spider looked up at her, all eight eyes brimming with tears. "Everything," he answered. "Today I learned everything I'll ever need to know about people and the people world, and that's quite enough. I'm not going back."
Image taken with 40 year old Sigma 300mm f5.6, so images will be a little soft and show some chromatic aberration.
Departing RAF Fairford after appearing at the Royal International Air Tattoo 2023 is this Italian Air Force Gulfstream 550 CAEW "Conformal Airborne Early Warning system"
En esta panorámica vertical de 3 fotos realizada en el Desierto de Atacama (uno de los cielos nocturnos mas oscuros del mundo), tuve la suerte de capturar la Luz Zodiacal junto a la Vía Láctea y a las ruinas de una antigua mina de oro y cobre.
La Luz Zodiacal es una banda débil de luz, de forma casi triangular, que se puede observar en el cielo nocturno justo antes del amanecer o bien después del atardecer, y que se forma por la dispersión de la luz del sol en una nube de polvo que rodea al sistema solar y que se denomina Nube Zodiacal.
Este es un fenómeno difícil de observar debido a lo tenue de su luz, y a que la más mínima influencia de la luz de la Luna o, más comúnmente, de la contaminación lumínica, la hace desaparecer.
ENGLISH CAPTION: "Zodiacal" This vertical panorama (vertorama) combines three photos held in the Atacama Desert (one of the darkest night skies in the world), and I was lucky enouhg to capture the Zodiacal light below the Milky Way and around the ruins of an old gold mine.
The Zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, diffuse white glow seen in the night sky just before the sunrise or after the sunset. This light is the result of sun's light being scattered by the Zodiacal Cloud, a space dust cloud that surround our solar system.
This is a phenomenon difficult to observe mostly due to its dim light, which means that the slightest influence of the moonlight or, more commonly, from light pollution, makes it completely vanish.
30 sec @ ƒ/4 @ ISO 6400 (Panorama)
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Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
MeFOTO RoadTrip Travel Tripod
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a great video to help improve your confidence in street photography:
body language and intention in street photography
horcruxes:
olympus : street : 45mm f/1.8
The Phat Bottom Girls w/ DJ Kes as they start getting ready for their Halloween Spooktacular event on Oct 28th!
Come see sexy ladies shaking that ass tonight.
Come don't be shy. Aslo win 1000 Ls
See you there!
I posted this image before, but was inspired to redo it when I came up with the clever title. :)
Once again, I used the new Nik software (as well as CS6), and am really quite pleased with the results.
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